How can I import a script with an arbitrary name ?

[Ben Finney]

leonel.gayard at gmail.com writes:

> So, I have a module with an arbitrary file name and I want to load it,
> and later access its function definitions.
> How can I do this ?  In my example, the last line will obviously not
> work.

If you want a solution that gives you an actual module object, here's
what I use:

    def make_module_from_file(module_name, file_name):
        """ Make a new module object from the code in specified file """

        from types import ModuleType
        module = ModuleType(module_name)

        module_file = open(file_name, 'r')
        exec module_file in module.__dict__

        return module

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Ben Finney